Carrying capacity¶
Your Strength score and size determine how much you can carry. Small and Medium creatures can carry Strength × 15 pounds. Use your score, not your ability modifier. Goliath’s Powerful Build treats you as one size larger for carrying capacity.
| Creature size | Carry (lb.) | Drag, lift, push (lb.) |
|---|---|---|
| Tiny | Strength × 7.5 | Strength × 15 |
| Small / Medium | Strength × 15 | Strength × 30 |
| Large | Strength × 30 | Strength × 60 |
| Huge | Strength × 60 | Strength × 120 |
| Gargantuan | Strength × 120 | Strength × 240 |
When pushing, dragging, or lifting more than your carry limit, Speed is at most 5 feet. This higher limit is not ordinary carrying capacity.
Inventory totals¶
Equipped gear still weighs something. Multiply each item’s unit weight by its quantity. Fifty coins of any denomination weigh 1 pound. Unspecified weights require the actual item’s weight; a partial subtotal is not an exact total. A printed dash means negligible weight, represented as zero in the workshop.
Ammunition quantities count individual pieces; their unit weights come from the printed bundle weights. Other bundles and packs include their listed contents. Avoid counting those contents again as separate inventory records. Use Carried by character to exclude gear stored elsewhere or inside a weight-independent extradimensional container, following that container’s rules. Keep the container itself counted. Mounts, vehicles, siege engines, and services are excluded by default.
Sources: supplied PHB 2024 Carrying Capacity (PDF pages 361–362), Goliath Powerful Build, and Coin Values (PDF page 212). DMG 2024 magic-item categories (PDF pages 219–220) and individual item descriptions. The DMG gives typical ranges for rods (2–5 lb.) and staffs (2–7 lb.), not a single universal weight. Set the actual item’s weight for these and other variable forms.
Imported source¶
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References to the workshop describe the separate browser application. For a text-only character record, use Character Sheet.